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Government Quotes
"The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start."
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"On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government."
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"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
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"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
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"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."
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"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."
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"I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights."
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"There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community."
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"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
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"Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs."
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"The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million."
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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."
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"This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American."
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"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people."
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"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government."
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"Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pillow. But she has no great tenderness, even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later, --oftener sooner than late,-- is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows."
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"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."
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"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."
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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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"The government gave me enough money to go to acting school."
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"Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so."
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"A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward."
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"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
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"When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area."
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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
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"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
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"After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again."
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"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."
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"I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative."
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"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."
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"I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council."
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"If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government."
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"I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled."
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"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
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"Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about."
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"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."
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"There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained."
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"Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible."
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"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government."
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"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."
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"I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly."
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"If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government."
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"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."
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"Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history."
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"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
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"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
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"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."
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